Fashion Blogs

For our Flea Bites episodes, we usually bring you the best in vintage and unique fashion finds, but did you know there are also delicious treats right next to the racks of clothes? For instance, this week at
the Hester Street Fair, we discovered Melt Bakery, a pretty sweet vendor that offers ice cream cookie sandwiches in various flavors such as the “Belle” and the “Rico”. Click play to find out more about these yummy flavors.

Already a designer of her own collection, Allora, Parsons student Daniela Jacobs is currently a writer for Refinery29 and a studio assistant/fashion intern for cult fave label Vena Cava. She offers regular reports from inside the VC studio and wherever her adventures in New York fashion take her.

Photos by Daniela Jacobs

Endings are always bittersweet. Always. No matter how much you hated high school, you can’t discredit that you cried at graduation. Or that despite the perfect wrap-up of all the

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Any fashion know-it-all is versed in Paris, New York, and Milan fashion. It’s just basic knowledge. But…Berlin? Well, it’s time to add the German capital to your runway repertoire. We’re on day three
of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin 2011, and the first day was hotter than New York City’s current heatwave…As if that’s possible.

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Photo: Todd Heisler/New York Times

While we were enjoying Pulino’s pizza and brews at the preview of the new Rag & Bone store on Houston last night (more on that later), Diane von Furstenberg, Norma Kamali, and Prabal Gurung
were getting real with New York Times scribe Eric Wilson in front of a paying audience for the latest edition of the newspaper’sTimes Talks series at the beautiful The Times Center just across from the picturesque Port Authority Bus Terminal. Given the reports leaking out on v

Photo via Flickr/Barry Fricke

It isn’t often that high-fashion design and prostitution collide, but in Amsterdam’s Red Light District, the world’s most glamourous industry is meeting its oldest profession. Similar to New York’s Fashion Incubator, the new RedLight Fashion Initiative mentors 16 of Holland’s most promising designers in the creation and promotion of their own labels. Thanks to the program, these young designers get
professional experience, exposure, and…oh yeah, subsidized rent costs

Remember when we gave you a sneak peek of We The People NYC and brought you to the store opening back in May? Today we bring you back to the emerging designer boutique to check up on this little treasure.We joined owner Vera Ng, and shoppers last night on the Lower East Side and even had the chance to chat with featured designers Rachel Cohen of coh.N and Kara Laricks of Collar, Stand + Tie. Click play to meet them yourself.

We The People, 156 Stanton Street, New York, NY, 212-533-1091

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Already a designer of her own collection, Allora, Parsons student Daniela Jacobs is currently a writer for Refinery29 and a studio assistant/fashion intern for cult fave label Vena Cava. She offers regular reports from inside the VC studio and wherever her adventures in New York fashion take her.

Photo - Daniela Jacobs

Well, I learned a few valuable things this week. First and foremost, the universe taught me that you must always dress for any occasion. As an intern, you never know where life—or t

Photo via Men of the Cloth Site

Whether you’re wearing it or just staring (don’t worry, we won’t tell), everyone loves a good suit. But a glimpse of the artistry behind suit tailoring is as rare as a cobalt-blue three-piece bespoke outfit from Savile Row. The soon-to-be-released documentary Men of the Cloth, however, gets behind the scenes (or seams) of this time-honored craft by following three Italian custom tailoring gurus at the peak of their powers.

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For the next few months, New York City’s Midtown will have a few new residents on its sidewalk– 32 to be exact. The Fashion Center’s Sidewalk Catwalk opened just yesterday featuring 32 mannequins decorated by some of city’s top fashion designers including Diane von Furstenberg, Betsey Johnson, Badgley Mischka, Thom Browne, Jason Wu, and many more. We took a trip to the heart of the Garment District to visit New York City’s latest public art exhibition, which extends from Herald Square to 42nd St

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If you’re anything like us, whenever you need more room in your already packed apartment, it means another humiliating trip to Buffalo Exchange or Beacon’s Closet only to find out that your spare threads are “unsellable” and all you’ve got in your hands is three drawers worth of landfill. Well, if you’re a New Yorker, fitting the hottest fall trends in your closet just got a lot easier. This September, NYC is finally going green by launching a massive te

For as long as we can remember, Hollywood has been trying (unsuccessfully) to go back to it’s early days of glam and class. And although we can’t bring back Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, we can try to recreate their signature style. Luca Luca created their Fall 2010 Ready-to-Wear collection based on the trademark tailored suit of the time, and the Spring 2010 Chanel runway looked like something Coco herself would wear. As for the makeup of the time, it always seems to feature three stunning

Mew New York's Spring Collection (Photos via The Cut)

We love to keep aspiring designers in the know. If there’s a cool contest where you can flaunt your garbs, we’re sure to tell you. So, we’re going to give you a sneak peek of Mew New York,
a success story that could be yours in a few years if you actually enter these design competitions. Because, well, we know you’ll win, right?

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Welcome to another edition of Flea Bites, where we take you into the best flea markets around New York City and the independent designers, sellers, and tastemakers who keep them running. Today, we introduce you to designer Sara Keiser who caught our eye at The Market NYC on Mulberry Street with her deconstructed collection of colorful accessories and dresses, Box 185. Inspired by her love of “lopsidedness” and animals, with a touch influence from her hometown in South Dakota, she gabbed her bran

Photo, Daniela Jacobs

Happy summer! Today was the official start of summer, and the unofficial hottest day that ever was. It was also the day I continuedworking on illustrating the upcoming collection for Vena Cava in theirairy Soho studio.

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